Why is there absolutely nothing in the Egyptian record describing any event remotely resembling the Exodus?

Question

They didn't keep perfect records of every event,but they kept decent records,so you would think an event like The Exodus would at least get a mention.

I'm not saying they didn't escape Egypt,that much is obvious. Whether they were simply freed,or escaped as groups over time,but clearly Exodus is a Huge exaggeration of whatever events finally led to their freedom.

Answer 1

As far as I know you are absolutely correct. The theory that the egyptians covered up 200 to 600 years of history just because some slaves escaped is highly unlikely.

The best my research into it could come up with is that there was a nomad tribe begging for water on the border and the Egyptions called them by a name similiar sounding to "hebrew".

Edit:
"The Exodus Decoded" has to be one of the worst strung together set of assumptions that I've seen. Within the first 10 minutes of researching it's claims I turned up 10 wrong things. The whole show was a complete stretch of facts.

Edit 2:
Remember the Hebrews were there from the time of Joseph andhe saved the country. Best estimates from him to Moses are 200to 600 years, that's a ton of records, history and other indications to erase.

Answer 2

I'm studying to be either a biblical archaeologist or an Egyptologist so this is an interesting subject for me.

First of all there are few records of anything in Egypt and what they do find is hard to place when or if it actually happened. Papyrus was their paper and it didn't last very long. It cracked and had to be treated delicately. So it's not surprising that a certain event cannot be found. There are lots of documents out there that they have found but we weren't looking for them specifically. Something like this is like looking for a needle in a haystack. To make matters worse they don't know which king to investigate.

Second, they never wrote about bad things when they happened not only because it was embarrassing but because writing was sacred. Another concept that was important to Egyptians was that everything would repeat itself like the rising of the sun everyday. If they wrote about these events it would make them sacred in a way and it would repeat itself. So they re-wrote history time and time again. The story of the Exodus will never be put on hieroglyphs because that was considered as the writing of the gods.

Something else to consider is the Library at Alexandria. The Library was like the national archives. It had everything and Egypt didn't have more than one copy of something like we do. Some of the world's most famous scholars studied at the library till Octavian burned it down to irk Cleopatra who prized knowledge. Thousands upon thousands of important documents were lost. Only a few have survived and now reside in a museum that specializes in preserving them.

Another thing to note about the Exodus is the Red Sea. The Israelites never crossed the Red Sea in the Bible. It was mistranslated. The original Bible says the Sea of Reeds. Scientists are having a hard time idenifying the Reed Sea because they built a time and all the rivers excepting the Nile dried up.

A peculiar subject in Egyptology is the Hyskos. Nobody knows exactly who they were, how or why they got to Egypt, when they got there, and how and why they left. Basically we know they were there and then they left. Most Egyptologist don't like to combine the Hebrew people and the Hyksos people. They are supposed to be unbiased and they don't readily accept Biblical assumptions which can be a good or bad thing.

Answer 3

Maybe because the jews were wandering around the arabian desert and not the sinai desert. There have been no archaeological discoveries found in the sinai desert.

Some people called Ron Wyatt a crack pot, but I think a few of his ideas do make some logical sense.

I'm thinking that maybe the jews were never in egypt - but maybe in yemen instead - the land of sheba. and thats only MY OWN thinking - not anyone else's so far. But I have just discovered that maybe Kamal Salibi wrote about this first.

Dont forget to read the recent thriller novel - The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry. It promotes the same theory as well.

Answer 4

There are people who say there is, besides the certainty that it is disputed. in any case the apparent reason may well be the pharaohs never monumentalize defeats on temple partitions. No checklist of the effectual go out of a great bunch of foreign places slaves (with loss of an finished chariot squadron) might ever have been memorialized by potential of an king interior the temples interior the Delta or everywhere else for that count.

Answer 5

Egypt never had any Jewish or Hebrew slaves. They were meticulous record keepers and they didn't mention having Hebrew slaves once.

Yes, that's the logical explanation.... They were so ashamed of being plagued and having all their babies killed and all the other supernatural occurrences that they never bothered to leave a post-it. Get real. Guess what? There was no Global Flood either.

Answer 6

I think the parting of the Red Sea might have been added on later to round up a good story.

Answer 7

I don't know the answer but I imagine a possibility is that if you were Pharaoh at the time, and you were embarrassed by the exodus, you would want no record of it.

Answer 8

That fable was copied from a more ancient story from the Sumerian people.

Answer 9

The folks who know about such matters aren't in agreement on the subject. Your choice of the word 'absolutely' demonstrates you could use some brushing up on the subject.

Answer 10

Actually, there is. They didn't like to write of defeat, look in the surrounding buildings. the differences in clay used etc.... there was a history or discovery thing on it. and a ton of chariots in the sea....hmmm....